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I think he was planning to eradicate the demons after he returned to the human world. I mean, Dante and Lady did that successfully even without the power of Sparda; she says as much in the final cutscene, and it's always heavily implied that Dante is bored out of his mind between the events of the games, so even if there is the occasional demon, there were very few.

If Dante and Lady did it normally, it's definitely not outside the realm of possibility for Vergil to do it while wielding ultimate power. I think he knew that.

The pivotal point, if that's true, is "what would Vergil have done if left to his own devices?" "Would he have closed the demon gate and brought back the sword Sparda?"